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It's now 6 months ago since Steve Jobs announced the iPad. It has been a crazy 6 months :-)

We have seen huge interest in our Digital Magazine solution that allows publishers to efficiently publish to the iPad. This interest is ranging from the largest publishers of the world to 1-man design studio's. Because TIME Magazine was our launching title, a lot of people think/assume that our solution is expensive and only affordable for the biggest publishers. Which is not quite the case...

So let me provide some clarity on our pricing.  read more >>

In this blog article I would like to give you an insight into the my part of the world: Asia. This is a brief diary of my month of July where I visited Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, and Bangkok to talk to customers and prospects and to speak at various seminars about the WoodWing solutions and the iPad tools in particular. read more >>

The next stop of the WoodWing World Tour is a fact! On September 17, we will continue the success of our World Tour events in the amazing surrounding of the Blu Radisson hotel in downtown London.

On this day we hope to welcome many companies interested in the future of publishing.

Are we going to talk about publishing to tablets like the iPad? Most definitely! Is this going to be the only item on our agenda? No way! WoodWing will offer you a free event where you will learn everything you need to know about today’s publishing industry and one of the big opportunities for the industry lies in the upcoming use of tablet devices such as the iPad. read more >>

A lot has been written about the iPad since (and before) it made its debut in April in the United States. Sales have been a tremendous success and there is a constant push in areas where Apple has not launched it to start selling it as soon as possible. The iPad has been hailed by many in the publishing industry (most notably Rupert Murdoch) as the saviour of the industry. And I think they are right. Even though I must admit I was a sceptic at first, once I held one in my hands and really started using it I felt its potential impact. Not only to the publishing industry but to the way people use and interact with a computer. Because that is what it is, and a quite powerful one at that. read more >>

Digital magazines

A lot has happened since I wrote my last post here. In case you didn't notice it yet, the last couple of months we have been very busy working on our digital magazines solution. Now that we finally have our hands on the device (we were crazy enough to be waiting in line at the 3rd of April at 6 AM), lets look back at the last couple of months with a quick peek of what's to come. read more >>

The business potential of a tablet device

Suppose you are publisher of a consumer magazine. You publish monthly, your circulation in print is 100 and you are planning to publish a digital version of your magazine on a tablet device (and you are in the lucky position you have the right system to create this ;-) ).

How many copies of the digital issue 'April 2012' do you think you will sell and what happens to your profitability? read more >>

The announced support for the ePub format and the ability to download books from the iTunes store will probably give book sales a big boost and must have scared Amazon. The format is great for reading articles that are focussed on plain text, hence the focus on books and possibly newspapers. I doubt the iPad is the best option for reading them though. read more >>

Web Fonts May Be the Key for Magazines on the iPad (and all the Rest of the Digital Platforms)

Following Apple's iPad launch, I was struck by the juxtaposition of two observations by the commentators. Firstly, several noted the failure of the Flash component in the demo of the New York Times pages; apparently, like its cousins the iPod Touch and the iPhone, the iPad does not play Flash content. Secondly, as detailed in the extreme by a post at Gawker, there was no glitzy demo of magazine content. read more >>

Early January a lot of people are sharing their expectations for the coming year.  I don't like to be a sheep, but I do want to share my view on 2010, so here we go :-)

2010 is going to be very very exciting. read more >>